Thermal Camera

[Thebeeman]

Just a heads up.
I've been pondering for a while and have just bought the one as per the link. Seems to be a good spec and a very good price, Black Friday.
www.amazon.co.uk/FLIR-Android-Thermal-R ... r=8-5&th=1

[AGT]

Nice buy, getting to the time of year where that’s going to be useful.

[AE-NMidlands]

I thought that one of our members more experienced with this sort of kit was quite critical of this type of flir device?
Otherwise I would have considered getting one too. Octopus used to loan them out but I think the numbers were few and what it cost them was too much.
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[Thebeeman]

They are still running the loan scheme but the queue gets to be very long apparently so I decided not to wait. I can hire it out to friends if it works.
If you search Octopus Thermal Camera it 'should' take you to the info.

[nowty]

https://octopus.energy/blog/flir-thermal-cameras

[HML]

I had one of the earlier versions of this. It was rubbish. Low resolution, slow, narrow angle of view, no integration with optical camera and the piece de resistance, a software "upgrade" changed the software form being mediocre to being quite useless.

Now got a phone with thermal camera built in and it's extremely good, and cost me about as much as the Amazon price for the plugin camera.

Of course they might have fixed the issues and it's now good enough, but it will still be a kludge dangling under the phone.

[Swwils]

It's not a good price the P2 pro far surpasses it.

Nothing wrong with the flir sensor it's just very old hat now and infiray have captured this end of the market as not encumbered by both export regulations or their own high end unit sales.

You'd want more resolution for a more serious survey.

[AGT]

What’s the kind of minimum resolution these days?

[AlBargey]

Now got a phone with thermal camera built in and it's extremely good, and cost me about as much as the Amazon price for the plugin camera.

Of course they might have fixed the issues and it's now good enough, but it will still be a kludge dangling under the phone.

I also have a rugged phone with a Flir sensor in it, there's a quite a few available now, one of the originals was a precursor to the CAT s62, but it's a bit old now, I'm on my second Ulefone with a Flir Lepton sensor, currently a 3.5 160x120 so same as the amazon addon one linked but higher sensitivity and fairly good MSX (overlaying standard picture with thermal image) but it's still not as good as an expensive pro unit. I've found it useful for checking battery wire connections, radiator stratification, overheating engine injectors, and hot dogs etc so still quite useful

[Swwils]

The flir one is 160 x 120, the E4 was software locked to 80 x 60 from a 320 × 240 - the p2 pro is 256x192 with the newer core but at 25hz which makes a nice difference so for £200 256x192 is the new "low".